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Consider that you are Mayor Fred.... he has been at this, daily since 2001..... He blocks the spammers..... he posts and adds his comments, bringing to us, his vast history of experience about topics I can only think... well, I didn't know that......
He has a website that Secretary Kathleen Sebelius should envy..... except, as my Mother use to say, "I don't know no better."
During these years, Rantburg U has emerged.
Fred needs funds in his checking account....... to continue with Rantburg.
You got 10 bucks? So do about 100 other Rantburgers.... That goes a long way in Rantburg bucks.
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Would you, after all these years since 2001, still be doing each day, what he does...... wondering if his team is covering his six?
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Check your mailbox in a few days, Fred. Thank you and the moderators for keeping this wonderful place going, especially for the month I was away helping my mother.
[Tolo News] Local officials of eastern Nuristan province said that two non-combatants were killed by a roadside kaboom on Saturday morning in Chapa Dara District of the province.
The incident took place in the district when a passenger vehicle struck a roadside kaboom, the officials said.
The victims have been taken to a nearby hospital.
No group including the Taliban grabbed credit for the blast.
Insurgents frequently use roadside kabooms to target Afghan and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... forces, but most of the victims are civilians.
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[Al Ahram] Shells struck the capital of Sudan's war-torn South Kordofan state on Saturday, residents said, but there was no immediate word on any casualties.
"The last one just landed a few minutes ago," one resident of Kadugli told AFP.
Rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N), fighting since 2011 in South Kordofan, have periodically shelled Kadugli since late last year, causing some fatalities.
"I heard about three mortars," a second resident told AFP, adding that two had hit the centre of town near a bus depot.
The other resident also said the town centre had been struck, but he spoke of six shells slamming into the area, forcing citizens to take cover.
Sawarmi Khaled Saad, Sudan's military front man, said about five SPLA-N mortar bombs struck Kadugli on Saturday morning and the army responded with Katyusha rocket fire.
He had no other details.
But rebel front man Arnu Ngutulu Lodi said he had "not yet received a report from there" and could not confirm the incident.
The bad boys, who have said their attacks on Kadugli target military facilities, last fired mortar rounds at the state capital in November, calling the strike retaliation for an air raid which killed two children.
The government has said that earlier rebel shelling of the town killed civilians.
In June, some rebel fire landed inside a United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... peacekeeping base in Kadugli, killing one soldier.
Saturday's incident comes during an escalation of fighting in the region, after Defence Minister Abdelrahim Mohammed Hussein said in November that an operation had begun to crush Sudanese rebels.
The insurrection by the non-Arab SPLA-N is fuelled by complaints of political and economic neglect by the Arab-dominated Khartoum regime.
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...and if you can't believe Shabelle radio, who can you believe...
obtained last night from Kismayu, the capital of the lower Juba region of Somalia confirmed that a heavy fighting occurred at the late hours which said to have claimed massive casualties.
The fighting sparked when Alshabab fighters attacked a base manned by the troops of the interim Juba administration unexpectedly.
Unexpectedly!
Residents confirmed to Shabelle radio that the fighting between the two opposing sides claimed severe casualties including death, injury and loss of property.
The Juba administration police carried out a massive operation just after the attacks arresting several civilians who are suspected of being the perpetuators behind the attacks. The Juba administration is yet to comment on last night's fighting.null
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At least one person was killed and three others seriously wounded when twin explosions rocked the Kenyan town of Wajir near the Somalia border, police said on Saturday. The blasts ripped through the town market shortly after 8:00 pm Friday night, a senior police officer told AFP.
It looks like these were improvised explosive devices, the officer said. We lost one person while three others were taken to hospital."
No one claimed responsibility for the attack, which police said was likely the work of Al Qaeda-linked Shaboobs Shebab insurgents or their sympathisers.
The region along Kenyas 700-kilometre border with Somalia has seen a series of attacks, mainly on police but also against hotels and restaurants, since Kenya sent its troops to Somalia to fight the Shebab in October 2011 and authorities routinely blame the attacks on the rebels. Wajir, which lies about 100 kilometres from the Somali border, has been the scene of many of such attacks.
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Troops belonging to the Liyuu Police who come under the Ethiopian administration in Somali territories in Ethiopia have came under accusation of massacring almost sixty ethnic Somalis in the cities of Mustahil and Qalafe on the border Somali-Ethiopian border.
According to local sources the Jigjiga based administration accused the local inhabitants of harboring and providing a safe haven to Al-Shabaab members in the area, a claim denied by the local inhabitants.
"Lies! All lies!"
According to local tribal leader Omar Sheekh Yusuf all of those who were killed were innocent people, the majority of them being herders.
According to Somali Member of Parliament Ali Abdi Ali, who originally hails from the area surrounding Mustahil and Qalafe confirmed the occurrence of the massacre at Mustahil and Qalafe. We have confirmation that the forces belonging to the Liyuu Police massacred innocent herders in the areas surrounding Mustahil and Qalafe. The Jigjiga based Ethiopian administration was behind this massacre and this is a fact.
According to sources in the region systematic rape also took place alongside the killings. They came and started shooting in the air. They rounded us up, my mother & sisters and they raped us. When they left we found my father dead. My brother was not found among the dead bodies. We dont know where he is. said one of the victims who preferred to keep her identity hidden for fear of repercussion.
The Liyuu Police & the Ethiopian administration have long been accused of ruthlessness, lawlessness, cracking down on ethnic Somalis in the region and violating human rights yet remain apprehended.
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MARKA, Somalia -- 12 people including militiamen and civilians died in heavy battle that raged between Somali Federal Government troops along clan loyalties in Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia on Saturday, Garowe Online reports.
The deadly infighting broke out when clan argument over agricultural lands in Awdegle village degenerated into shoot out, with witnesses reporting that at least 20 others were wounded. The Somali Federal Government troops sided with the rival clan militias and the ordinary residents fled the area where the fighting took place, eyewitnesses reported.
Just another tribal fight then...
"Unfortunate battle has occurred in Awdegle village and soon after, it became heavier one which was joined by government forces," Mohamed Abukar Aweys, the village's head told the media via telephone.
Mogadishu-based Federal Government forces previously clashed in deadly battles over regional influences as retired warlords including Yusuf Mohamed Siyad Indha'adde who remains deeply unpopular in Lower Shabelle region retaliated with armed militias following the removal of Al Shabaab militants from the region.
Indha'adde is known to have used clan militias to subjugate local populations in the 2000s in Lower Shabelle region.
The UN Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea said in a confidential report that, the 3rd Brigade of the Somali National Army (SNA) controls the Afgoye-Marka area of Lower Shabelle region.
"The 3rd Brigade is principally drawn from the Hawiye / Habar Gedir / Ayr clan. It consists of approximately 840 men...General Mohamed Roble Jimale 'Gobale' (Hawiye / Habar Gedir / Ayr), a close associate of Indha'adde, officially controls the 3rd Brigade", the UN report disclosed.
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[Libya Herald] A bomb seriously damaged a restaurant on Derna's west corniche late last night, however no was injured. The blast occurred after it had closed.
The reason for the attack is unknown although it is being reported locally and on social media sites that it is owned by a Syrian Christian.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... local sources say that the owner who has another restaurant in the centre of town is a Lebanese man who was born in Libya, is a convert to Islam and is married to Libyan woman.
His family went to Greece during the revolution and are still there, it is reported, but he remained in Derna throughout the conflict, and since.
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...In a country that is unpleasant as a whole, Derna is the unpleasantest. The city has a tradition - going back several hundred years - of not liking anybody in power in Tripoli, as well as religious fanaticism.
And the restaurant's location sounds nicer than it is - Google Earth Derna sometime.
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[Al Ahram] A Malian jihadist leader said a suicide kaboom on UN forces that killed two Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... ese troops Saturday in northern Mali was a response to African countries' support for the French army's fight against Islamist Death Eaters there. "I speak in the name of all the mujahedeen (fighters) in Azawad (northern Mali): this operation is a response to African countries that have sent soldiers to support (French President) Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... 's battle in the land of Islam," said Sultan Ould Badi, a well-known Islamist who has been part of several armed bad boy groups.
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[Al Ahram] A 23-year old man was killed in the Egyptian city of Suez and another in Fayoum during festivities between security forces and defiant supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... in Cairo on Friday.
The Suez emergency department announced that the man sustained a neck wound from live gunshot, passing away in the hospital hours after he sustained the injury. Another injured civilian, the department added, received a gunshot wound in the knee.
Clashes initially broke out in Suez between protesters and unidentified civilians, and the police later became involved.
In Fayoum, south of the capital, a 19-year-old man was rubbed out in festivities after recieving a gunshot in his chest and stomach.
Authorities have also confirmed that three coppers and three civilians were maimed during festivities between protesters and police in Alexandria and Fayoum, Al-Ahram's Arabic news site reported.
According to the report, one of the injured civilians sustained a live gunshot wound, while the others were maimed by birdshot.
Throughout the day on Friday, security forces jugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! at least 54 protesters during the dispersal of demonstrations in several Egyptian cities.
In the Cairo neighborhoods of Madinet Nasr, Imbaba, Maadi and Helwan, security forces fired teargas to disperse protests led by supporters of deposed president Mohammed Morsi, under the mandate of Egypt's recently enacted controversial protest law.
In the Nile Delta city of Ismailia, pro-Morsi protesters gathered in one of the city's main streets, chanting against the military and police, before being chased away by police forces.
The Pro-Legitimacy and Anti-Coup Coalition, Egypt's main Islamist alliance, called on its supporters to take to the streets on Friday in solidarity with protesting university students. A number of students have been killed recently during festivities with security forces on university campuses.
Since the beginning of the academic year in September, Egyptian universities have been at the heart of the unrest gripping the country since the 3 July ouster of former president Morsi amid mass popular protests.
Pro-Morsi students have organised near-daily protests to call for the former president's reinstatement and to denounce the arrest of fellow students in previous demonstrations.
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[EN.APA.AZ] At least 25 people were feared killed when the military in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... 's Borno State engaged gunnies, suspected to be Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... members, in an armed conflict, sources said in Maiduguri, the state capital, on Friday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
The gunnies launched an attack on Ngauramari Village in Bama local government area of the northern state on Thursday, but the security operatives on guard repelled the attack, killing 25 of the Death Eaters during a gun duel and an Arclight airstrike, a military source told Xinhua.
"Three of the Death Eaters who came from their hideout in the Sambisa Games Forest were killed in a shootout. But others were killed in Arclight airstrike by the military," the security source said.
Sule Abdullahi, a resident of the village returning from his farm, told a news hound that at least 22 bodies were found in bushes in the area on Friday morning.
According to him, the fleeing gunnies were killed while trying to cross a river in Bama-Firgi-Gwoza area.
"They were probably killed with the military's fighter jet," Abdullahi added.
The Boko Haram sect had coordinated deadly attacks in Bama- Firgi-Gwoza area of the state in the past, with the most recent being the killing of at least five people on Sunday when some gunnies ambushed road users on a federal highway.
Military spokesperson in the state, Mohammed Dole, confirmed Thursday's incident but said the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army was compiling its report on it before issuing a statement.
On Monday, the Nigerian Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki, launched a new strategy and change of tactics in fighting the Boko Haram insurgency in the attack-prone northeastern region, with a view to finally put an end to the reign of terror in the West African country.
Based in Borno State, the Boko Haram sect, which proves to be the biggest security threat in the West African country, had grabbed credit for several attacks in which more than 1, 500 people, including women and kiddies had been killed since 2009 when it launched violent attacks in northern Nigeria.
Irked by the carnage, the military had recently intensified its fight against the sect.
Last Monday, the military authorities confirmed that 24 Death Eaters died during an exchange of fire between security forces and suspected forces of Evil in a pre-dawn attack on Maiduguri.
Boko Haram seeks to enshrine the Islamic Sharia law into the constitution and declared war against Western education in Nigeria.
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feared? pshaw! 25 dead Bokos is worth ululating over
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These people are waging all-out war against Western civilization, yet we keep trying to fight them with the utmost civility. I am firmly convinced that if we don't reconsider, we will lose most of Africa and South Asia. It's time to reconstitute the use of napalm, ARCLIGHT strikes, and saturation bombing of selected "outposts of Islam". We may even need to do this to their most populated centers and areas of productivity. You can't wage war if you're too busy trying to catch your next ratmeal.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The nayeb-e-ameer (vice president) of Laxmipur district unit of Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... was found dead early today.
Fayez Ahmed's family claimed a group of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members forced into their house and shot him dead.
Ahmed's body was left at Laxmipur Hospital around 2:00am, a correspondent reported quoting hospital sources.
When contacted, Mohammad Lokman Hossain, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, did not make any comment on the issue.
According to Marzia Begum, the widow of the Jamaat leader, a group of people, identifying themselves as Rab personnel, forced into their South Temuhoni house in Laxmipur Sadar.
They took Ahmed to the rooftop forcefully and shot him in the head, she said.
Later, they tossed him from the rooftop, Begum added.
Describing the incident, hospital sources said some unknown people went to the hospital in a car, left the body at the emergency unit and drove away immediately.
Autopsy was done in presence of police around 10:00am today, according to sources.
As soon as the death news spread, the activists of Jamaat and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... , brought out several processions in Mandari, Zoksin, Battoli, Hazaripara and Chandraganj Bazar areas of the upazila protesting the "killing".
The party men also put barricades on Laxmipur-Choumuhani road felling over one hundred roadside trees of those areas.
A tense situation has been prevailing in the town following death of the Jamaat leader.
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[Bangla Daily Star] At least 11 people were killed in Noakhali and Nilphamari yesterday, as Jamaat-Shibir men clashed with law enforcaers and ran riot in several parts of the country to protest the execution of their leader Abul Quader Mollah.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Kinnison began his slow infiltration of the sewer system... a Jamaat leader died early yesterday when law enforcers raided his house in Laxmipur town.
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The two-year budget deal crafted by Republican congressman Paul Ryan and Democratic senator Patty Murray sailed through the House of Representatives on a 332-94 vote last Thursday, just two days after it was introduced.
If cutting a bipartisan deal is so easy, why couldn't Republicans and Democrats have reached an agreement before October 1 and skipped the government shutdown altogether?
"I think the pressure of divided government has come full force, and I think the specter of one or two more government shutdowns concentrated our minds to make this divided government work," Paul Ryan said on Saturday afternoon, speaking with THE WEEKLY STANDARD by phone from his hometown of Janesville.
"It's very clear that without this deal two things would happen: The military would have borne the full force of these cuts starting in January. And we would have at least one more government shutdown drama." I want to believe him....
"We think that's bad," Ryan said during a break between games at his son's basketball tournament. "We think that's not in our interest. We want 2014 to be a year where we don't keep cutting the military, and we focus on Obamacare, we focus on the conservative reforms we want to roll out, and we win the next election so we can start saving this country." Good or bad? I don't know. My Medicare bill is going up and my Social Security check is going down.
But the Ryan-Murray deal is not without its critics. In the Senate, a growing number of Republicans have objected to bill's provision to reduce the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) by one percentage point for military retirees under the age of 62. Senators Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, and Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma have all cited the issue as a dealbreaker for them.
[Pak Daily Times] A wanted terrorist of outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) was taken into custody among 62 suspects on Saturday.
As per reports, the accused was identified as Adnan alias Abbu Hamza, his arrest was made when Crime Investigation Department (CID) team conducted a raid at his hideout in Keamari locality. Two hand grenades and a pistol were also recovered from his possession.
CID Interrogation Cell In charge Mazhar Mashwani said that the name of the accused was printed in the sixth edition of the CID's Red Book. "He is associated with the TTP and al-Qaeda, both," CID's official Mashwani claimed. "His group members, wanted by the police, are associated with the TTP, Punjabi Taliban and al-Qaeda, and their names are also in the CID's Red Book."
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[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: A teenager was killed, and her father injured, while two bodies were found from different parts of the city on Saturday.
A teenage girl was killed and her father maimed in an armed attack in Block-12, Gulistan-e-Jauhar within the jurisdiction of Shahrah-e-Faisal cop shoppe.
As per the police officials, the victim 17-year-old, Maham Fatima, was on her way to college with her father Mohammad Amin when unidentified armed riders intercepted the vehicle and opened indiscriminate firing.
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[Pak Daily Times] KHYBER AGENCY: At least six people were killed in a drone strike in Mach Magai area of Loe Shalman near Khyber Agency on Saturday. According to political administration, a US unmanned aircraft fired two missiles which hit a boat in River Kabul. Six people were killed while two others injured in the attack, the administration added. The injured, identified as Hamid and Shabbir were admitted to Landikotal hospital. This was the first US drone strike in Loe Shalman area.
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How many innocent fishies were killed? Or was this not a drone attack at all but just a redneck fishing accident?
[Al Ahram] Attacks in Iraq, including two bombings in a market and a blast targeting people who give food and water to Shia pilgrims, killed 15 people on Saturday, officials said.
Violence has reached a level this year not seen since 2008, when Iraq was just emerging from a period of brutal sectarian killings, raising fears that the country is falling back into all-out conflict.
In the deadliest attack, two bombs went kaboom! in a market in Nahrawan, near Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , killing at least five people and wounding at least 13, while a bomb in a restaurant in Husseiniyah, also close to the capital, killed two people and maimed six.
In southern Storied Baghdad, a boom-mobile targeted people who give food and water to Shia pilgrims walking to the holy city of Karbala, killing at least four people and wounding at least 13.
Other bombings and shootings in Iraq killed four people, among them a local anti-Al-Qaeda militia leader and a policeman, and maimed three police.
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New People's Army militants stormed a police headquarters on Saturday -- the second in just two days in the southern Philippines -- and seized weapons.
About 30 rebels disarmed policemen guarding the headquarters in Misamis Occidental province. The raiders took a machine gun, an M203 grenade launcher, seven automatic rifles and nine hand guns from the police arsenal before escaping towards Zamboanga del Sur province. Troops sent to pursue the fleeing rebels clashed with the NPA band in Josefina town.
Captain Jefferson Somera said members of the 55th Infantry Battalion were dispatched to hunt down the militants. He said, "The fighting lasted over 25 minutes and we foiled the NPA plan to detonated landmines in the area to slow down the military pursuit."
He said in September, army troops killed a senior NPA commander, Henry Celajes, in a firefight in Misamis Occidental. Celajes was the NPA deputy secretary in western Mindanao.
[Al Ahram] Iranian security forces have nabbed Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! a "spy" working for the British government in Kerman, a judicial official in the southeastern province told the state IRNA news agency on Saturday.
The announcement came just a day after Iran's new envoy to Britannia, Hassan Habibollah-Zadeh, held talks in London on his first visit since his appointment last month, which ended a two-year freeze in diplomatic relations.
"Through the efforts of Iranian security forces, an MI6 spy has been arrested," the head of the Kerman revolutionary court, Dadkhoda Salari, said, referring to Britannia's foreign intelligence service
"He has met British intelligence officers in person 11 times, both inside the country and abroad, and provided them with intelligence," Salari said.
He said the suspect had confessed to his crimes and was now being tried.
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[Pak Daily Times] A rebel commander has frozen to death in the bitter cold brought by a snowstorm that has swept Syria this week, a monitoring group said Saturday. I blame Global Warming®.
"The body of a rebel commander who was on his way from (the northwestern province of) Idlib to Homs (in central Syria) has been found. He died during the snowstorm," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP there were no signs of gunshots or other wounds and that the body was "frozen."
Abdel Rahman said the unnamed commander, in his 40s, was a member of the Islamist Suqur al-Sham brigades.
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As long as lots of Jihadis get killed the better it is for the West.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Pak Daily Times] A wanted terrorist of outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) was taken into custody among 62 suspects on Saturday.
[Pak Daily Times] KARACHI: A teenager was killed, and her father injured, while two bodies were found from different parts of the city on Saturday.
New People's Army militants stormed a police headquarters on Saturday -- the second in just two days in the southern Philippines -- and seized weapons. 
[Al Ahram] Iranian security forces have 
[Pak Daily Times] A rebel commander has frozen to death in the bitter cold brought by a snowstorm that has swept Syria this week, a monitoring group said Saturday.
